飯

See also: 饭

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 食 (“food”) + phonetic 反

Han character

飯 (radical 184 食+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹水 (OIHE), four-corner 8174₇, composition ⿰食反)

1. cooked rice
2. food
3. meal

References

• KangXi: page 1417, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44064
• Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4444, character 5
• Unihan data for U+98EF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

飯 (Yale faan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

飯

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: はん (han), ぼん (bon)
• Kun: めし (meshi)
• Nanori: いい (ii)

Compounds

• 炊飯 (すいはん, suihan)
• 御飯 (ごはん, gohan)
  • 朝御飯 (あさごはん, asagohan)
  • 昼御飯 (ひるごはん, hirugohan)
  • 夕御飯 (ゆうごはん, yūgohan)
• 飯村 (いいむら, Īmura)
• 飯島 (いいじま, Ījima)
• 飯山 (いいやま, Īyama)
• 飯窪 (いいくぼ, Īkubo)

Noun

飯 (hiragana めし, romaji meshi)

1. cooked rice
2. (informal) meal

   飯 (めし)を食 (く)う

   meshi o kuu

   eat a meal

Usage notes

This is an informal way to refer to food, and 食 (く)う (kuu) is a correspondingly informal way to say "eat."

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Korean

Hanja

飯 (hangeul 반 (ban), revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

Compounds

• 飯饌 (반찬, banchan or panchan)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ fan˥˩ ]

Noun

飯 (traditional, Pinyin fàn, measure word 頓, simplified 饭)

1. cooked rice
2. meal

Compounds

• 飯菜
• 飯鏟
• 飯單
• 飯店, 飯店兒
• 飯館, 飯館兒
• 飯鍋
• 飯盒, 飯盒兒
• 飯局
• 飯來張口，衣來伸手
• 飯粒, 飯粒兒
• 飯量
• 飯門, 飯門兒
• 飯囊
• 飯票, 飯票兒
• 飯鋪, 飯鋪兒
• 飯糗如草
• 飯勺
• 飯時
• 飯食, 飯食兒
• 飯攤, 飯攤兒
• 飯堂
• 飯廳
• 飯桶
• 飯碗
• 飯轍
• 飯莊
• 飯桌, 飯桌兒
• 飯座兒

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ pŋ˧˧ ]

Noun

飯 (traditional, POJ pn̄g, traditional 飯, simplified 饭)

1. cooked rice
2. meal

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Vietnamese

Han character

飯 (phạn)